Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
So you guys, I have to be honest.
Chapter 2: What recent events have sparked a discussion on freedom of speech?
There is a lot going on in our country right now that makes me question how much freedom of speech we genuinely have. I mean, we literally have people that are being investigated by the FBI, the CIA, reading their texts just for their speech. But then this week, Afro man of all people wins a defamation lawsuit against him on the basis of his freedom. freedom of speech.
And suddenly my hope is restored and yours should be too. I am so excited to do this episode because I think my favorite genre of content online right now is celebrity court cases. It's like us getting a inside look into the insanity of these cases. It is just the greatest thing ever from Johnny Depp to Cardi B to, oh my gosh, what if Paltrow and the skiing case, everything.
I mean, it is just so insane. Oh, we can't forget Young Thug, truly humble under God.
Chapter 3: How did Afro Man's defamation lawsuit come to light?
I mean, it is just so crazy. And the latest one just might take the cake, the lemon pound cake, if you will. All right, so one thing that you need to know is that this lawsuit against the rapper Afro Man, it is the final boss of the Streisand effect because I, like many of you, I am sure, had no idea that this was happening.
It's like the Cynthia Erivo clip, like, I really had no idea that this was going on, whatever that meme is.
I didn't know that that was happening.
Because all of this happened like four, three years ago. Afro Man was releasing all these songs, defaming people, mocking people. We had no idea until the trial started this week and all of the clips started circulating. And so for the people who sued Afro Man and subsequently lost, it is a bad day.
Because now we're all talking and I'm about to dedicate an entire episode to how ridiculous they are. All right, so if you do not know who Afro Man is, much like me, he was, you know, before my time, I think. He is a rapper that was most popular between like 2000 and 2002. Thanks to his hit song, I Got High. And let's just put it all out there. This man loves getting high. This man loves weed.
Just listen to this rundown of some of his most famous songs.
Smoke on it. Enjoyed your bud. Who wanna smoke? Dope fiend. Smoke a blunt. Smoke two blunts. Let's get high tonight. Smoke a blunt with you. I smoke weed. Smoke some green. Hit this blunt with me. Sell your dope. And my personal favorite, deck my balls.
I think my favorite one is smoke a blunt and then smoke a blunt two or whatever it is. It's like he had more to say. He had a lot more to say. Anyway, so yeah, that is the man in question. Like I said, his heyday was almost 30 years ago now. And so these days he has chosen to live a quieter life. He met a woman, he fell in love with her. I think she's from Ohio.
So they bought a five acre little farm in Ohio. He settled down. He has two kids. He was just happy being Afro man releasing some music here and there, but just vibing in Adams County, Ohio. But then, something happened, something very serious happened that changed Afro man's life.
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Chapter 4: What background information is important to know about Afro Man?
Now that same article continues on and says, quote, I ask myself, as a powerless black man in America, that's the most lib part of this entire episode, do not worry, it's a powerless black man. He does have power, you're gonna see why. What can I do to the cops that kicked in my door, tried to kill me in front of my kids, stole my money, and disconnected my cameras?
And the only thing I could come up with was to make a funny rap song about them and use the money to pay for damages they did and then move on.
Now, one thing that he mentions in this quote that I don't think I really touched on when I was talking about the context here, when he's saying like, tried to kill me in front of my kids, they didn't know that he wasn't home, but they busted into his home with like AR-15s. Like guns blazing, literally his kids were there. Like it was a serious thing.
It wasn't just like, hey, can we like poke around? Like they rushed in while he was not home. So like I said, like he says right here, he decides to turn it into an opportunity and he writes a six minute diss track with six minutes of the actual search footage from his security cameras and he titles it, Will You Help Me Repair My Door? Just watch this.
All right, now, obviously, even though I would love to sit here and just vibe with you all for six minutes straight, I am not going to do that. I can't do that for copyright reasons. So go watch the entire six minute music video if you would like to do that. But you get the gist of it.
But what I really think we need to hone in on here is that all the while, while he's releasing this song, he is staying positive. Genuinely, as I was going through all this, I was like, oh my gosh, I think this man, all the weed aside, like he needs to be some people's role models. Listen to what he had to say in the aftermath when he was talking about why he released the song. Just listen.
I used it in such a way where my problems became my solution. You know what I'm saying? So I could have just let that be my reality and that just would have been that. But singing about it and having a good time with it turned it into my solution. You know what I'm saying? Right. So here I am. I'm getting like two and three comments on Instagram. I'm doing all right, but, you know, I'm bored.
When they kicked the door in, Money kicked down the door. Material kicked down the door. I didn't have nothing to write about. You know, like, I'm okay. I'm rich. I can't be rapping about how I'm in the ghetto no more. You know what I'm saying? But when they kicked down the door, they gave me relevant, interesting material.
That's an amazing line. They gave me relevant, interesting material. And it's so funny, but again, this is a great lesson because he's like, I could have sat there and wallowed. Whether it was 30 years ago when he was writing his first song or whether it was now, it's like, I could have had a pity party. I could have complained about the situation, but This is funny. This is interesting.
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Chapter 5: What led to the police raid on Afro Man's home?
with the lemon pound cake that Afro Man and his family had sitting out on the counter. And so while everybody else was doing the raid, this fat-bodied police officer just kept coming inching on back to take a peek at the pound cake, which then subsequently inspired this song.
Just some lemon pound cake. Mama's lemon pound cake.
I mean, it's so good. It is so incredible. But guys, the thing is, we're still not done. Because he did not stop there. He actually turned this whole saga into a 14-song album with songs like The Police Raid, Why You Disconnecting My Video Camera, and Some Days Life Is Hard. But again, remember, he turned lemons into lemon pancakes.
He even sold merch promoting the album promoting the lemon pound cake as you can see here like it is crazy and guys again All of this was happening somehow unbeknownst to me I have definitely not been on the afro man side of the internet Unfortunately because I would have loved to be invested in this for the last four years
But I mean, like we have been missing out on trolling that rivals the levels of 50 cent. Like that's just upsetting. Anyway, so you might be thinking like, okay, Brett, this is all fine and good, whatever. But what does this have to do with our country? What does this have to do with free speech? Well, we're about to get to that.
So after this album came out, the police department got a little angry. They didn't like that Afro Man was starting to get hundreds of thousands of views on these diss tracks, and so the cops, they banded together, and they decided to sue Afro Man for $3.9 million in damages. They sued him for defamation.
They said that he defamed them, that he caused them emotional distress, and that he invaded their privacy by talking about them in his songs. Yeah, right, okay. Like the actual crime here is the left's attack on our Second Amendment rights. And that is why I'm so proud to work with Silencer Shop. And shooting with a suppressor is the best.
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Chapter 6: How did Afro Man respond to the police raid and its aftermath?
Now, needless to say, the internet loves. This woman, like everybody is hoping that her casseroles are always warm, that her hair is always perfectly permed. They love her. She also said in this testimony that at the time when she was actually married to this man, that the officers were laughing about the music.
They were not taking it seriously, which in the case was one of the nails in the coffin. And like I said, obviously the comments have been hysterical. Somebody said, I've never been more jealous of people getting jury duty. Another person said, I'm not mature enough to be in this courtroom. I would be held in contempt for laughing hysterically.
Somebody else said, I would literally use my PTO to be on this jury. Literally. I would too. I'm missing out. I'm watching from the sidelines. I need to figure out how to get into these courtrooms without being sued myself. But anyway, guys, back to the story.
Now, you might have assumed, you know, that once Afro Man got sued, once he finished that first album, that he would just focus on the trial. He would get back to doing his Afro Man thing, whatever that is, living in Ohio, back to business as usual. But no, because in that week, leading up to the trial, he didn't just release that one song.
No, he decided to go even further and release even more songs about different cops that he had not spoken about previously, essentially saying, if you want emotional distress, if you want me to invade your privacy and user likeness in my music videos, I will give you emotional distress.
One of these songs in particular was called Lick Em Low, Lisa, which was about the female cop involved in the raid. And I will just play you a brief clip because this music video, the song in its entirety, I don't think is something that is appropriate for this program, but just watch.
He went full out on this one.
Like in the other music videos, it was him walking around his property, in his house singing with his bong, whatever he's doing. He was using the clips of the raid. No, this one, he hired an actor. That woman that was running in the music video, that was somebody he hired to play Lick Em Low Lisa. I mean, it was like insane. They had women that this like cop was chasing. It was a whole thing.
Like this man staged an entire production to go after Lisa. And so obviously they brought Lisa onto the stand. And this poor lawyer, you have to hear what he has to ask her.
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